European Spine Journal

Bridging the channel: the first British Isles supplement of the European Spine Journal

Bronek Boszczyk, Phil Sell

Editorial: Spinal education, training and research in the UK

Douglas Wardlaw, Ashley A. Cole

Introducing the Society for Back Pain Research

Alison H. McGregor, John O’Dowd

A comparative evaluation of the small leucine-rich proteoglycans of pathological human intervertebral discs

Sharon Brown, James Melrose, Bruce Caterson, Peter Roughley, Stephen M. Eisenstein, Sally Roberts

Sagittal endplate morphology of the lower lumbar spine

Palaniappan Lakshmanan, Balaji Purushothaman, Vlasta Dvorak, Walter Schratt, Sathya Thambiraj, Bronek Maximilian Boszczyk

A pilot investigation into the effects of different office chairs on spinal angles

S. Annetts, P. Coales, R. Colville, D. Mistry, K. Moles, B. Thomas, R. van Deursen

Electromyographic analysis of trunk-muscle activity during stable, unstable and unilateral bridging exercises in healthy individuals

F. M. Feldwieser, L. Sheeran, A. Meana-Esteban, V. Sparkes

How well do observed functional limitations explain the variance in Roland Morris scores in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain undergoing physiotherapy?

F. Caporaso, N. Pulkovski, H. Sprott, A. F. Mannion

Malpractice litigation and the spine: the NHS perspective on 235 successful claims in England

N. A. Quraishi, T. C. Hammett, D. B. Todd, M. A. Bhutta, V. Kapoor

High-grade spondylolisthesis: gradual reduction using Magerl’s external fixator followed by circumferential fusion technique and long-term results

Christos Karampalis, Michael Grevitt, Masood Shafafy, John Webb

Safety of fluoroscopy guided percutaneous access to the thoracic spine

Jonathan A. Clamp, Edward J. Bayley, Firooz V. Ebrahimi, Nasir A. Quraishi, Bronek M. Boszczyk

Anterior thoracic foraminotomy through mini-thoracotomy for the treatment of giant thoracic disc herniations

Antonino Russo, G. Balamurali, Robert Nowicki, Bronek Maximilian Boszczyk

Intra-operative localisation of thoracic spine level: a simple “‘K’-wire in pedicle” technique

Sathya Thambiraj, Nasir A. Quraishi

Asymmetric osteotomy of the spine for coronal imbalance: a technical report

Sathya Thambiraj, Bronek M. Boszczyk

Abstracts for the Britspine Meeting, Newcastle 2–4 May 2012